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Systems of Sanskrit Grammar produce by coalescence a syllable less are not disregard- ed. The Papiniyo pratyaharas are retained without a change, though the fourteen Siva-sütras together with the section on Vedic grammar, are omitted. In addition, Devanandi has invented a large number of shorter techni- cal terms which bristle throughout his work and make its study the most comples imaginable. 66 Devanandi alius Pujyapada has, as is the wont of most Digambara writers, nowhere quoted by name or ac- knowledged his obligations to authors and works not belonging to his own religion. He has in his sütras quoted six names. The Deccan College Ms. no. 1223 of 1891-95, which makes it its business to prove that the author of this grammar is Jina himself, gives on this point a rather incorrectly written noto³ which tends to say that since one of the abovo names, that of Prabhachandra, which occurs in the sūtra , appears on the face of it to be a fiction, we may presume the same for all the rest. We can couple with this the statement of one of the commentators on Hemachandra's Dvyāśraya- mabākävya to the effect that Siddhasena, another of the quoted names, was not a grammarian at all. Dr. Kielhorn similarly believed that all these names were fictitious and thought that the practice of thus quoting names honoris cuuse was not confined to the Jainendra school alone. Unfortunately we cannot decide the matter now. 50. Later history of the Jainendra-vyakaraṇa. The absence of any originality accounts for the paucity of works con- nected with this school. Two commentaries only have 1 Such as er for er, for at 3 (3) rea, # for vegg, sa for arreng, and so on. 2 amely fr & P "" 1